"Remember when I told you of how they (
Big Brother) are going to choose your child's career...Well here it
is"
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
How Big Brother Plans Your Career
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
WASHINGTON � The
School to Work program, which is written into U.S. law, aims to decide for your
children what line of work they should be trained and educated for, according to
the needs of the state, collaborating with big business. It has all the
appearances of a back-door approach to the police state. William L. Shirer, in
his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," cites this phenomenon in Nazi
Germany:
"[The workbook was introduced] and eventually no worker could be
hired unless he possessed one. In it was kept a record of his skills and
employment. The workbook not only provided the State and the employer with
up-to-date date on every single employee in the nation, but was used to tie a
worker to the bench. If he desired to leave for other employment, his employer
could retain his workbook, which meant that he could not be legally employed
elsewhere."
Robert Holland, author of "Not With My Child, You Don't," says
the similarities of the Hitler's "full employment" system and the School to Work
Law "snapping into place" right here in the United States are "quite eerie and
disturbing."
The system won't develop overnight, of course. For such a
program to be imposed on a freedom-loving public, there must be stealth and
gradualism. But the machinery for it has been written into law.
As Holland
points out in a study prepared for Free Republic, School to Work legislation
repeatedly makes it clear its provisions are for "all students" and "all
schools." Many of us grew up with dreams and aspirations as to what career path
we wished to follow. We may even have changed our minds or careers along the
way. We followed our ambitions, often taking hard knocks and learning life's
lessons along the way. School to Work (STW) will have none of that. Some power
elites will determine your children's careers, and see that they are trained to
follow a predetermined paths. School to Work is not about educating boys and
girls so they can make their own career decisions. It is about training your
children to fit into whatever narrow scheme the elites have decided.
The
Usual Suspects
This plan can be traced to "the usual suspects," i.e.,
wealthy, powerful establishment foundations and left-wing politicians with a
statist complex. State-directed skills training would fit the "national good,"
as determined by the elites. In the mid-1980s, there was a raging debate as to
whether the U.S. should embark on a "national industrial policy" program. The
Reagan administration had rejected the idea, much to the chagrin of left-wing
politicians who felt that because many of our trading partners were making such
top-down decisions for their people, obviously we couldn't compete in a global
economy unless we did likewise. So planners did what planners always do. If the
bumpkins elected by the people don't follow the wisdom of their betters, well,
the planners will simply have to work around them.
A Carnegie Corp. forum on
education and the economy resulted in a Carnegie spinoff, National Center for
Education and the Economy (NCEE). This entity was led by educrat Marc Tucker,
who designed the grandiose Human Resource Development Plan. In 1990, NCEE
unveiled the first national report boosting the "necessity" of School to
Work.
Hillary, of Course
In the forefront of those boosting the plan were
Arkansas lawyer Hillary Clinton and industrial consultant Ira Magaziner. This
duo would later push for a national health system that went down in flames when
exposed to the light of day. Those pesky voters again! This was followed by a
series of reports from the U.S. Department of Labor in the first Bush
administration. One can speculate that if Ronald Reagan had been around for
another term, he would have given this meddling short shrift.
Electronic
Resume � for Kindergartners
These reports declared that, quoting Holland,
"all schools must bend single-mindedly to the task of socializing a skilled
workforce." The plan "even offered a model electronic resume to be kept for all
students, K through 12, wherein their 'workforce competencies' would be rated
and recorded for the benefit of their future employers. It had a line
identifying each child according to Social Security number." When the Clintons
came to Washington and took the reins of power, the agenda was front and center.
What followed were the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the
reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act. From all of this emerged a
National Skill Standards Board, which has divided the economy into 15 sectors.
The machinery for the state determining your child's future was in
place.